Right Plugin / Template Mix for Online Listing Business

I am looking to relaunch an existing listing business with WordPress, i.e. customers can create paid listings and receive direct inquiries from website visitors about their listings.

The main functionalities in a nutshell would be:

- Admin can create customized listing packages including pictures and text fields
- Customers can create one or more listings at time, i.e. they can pay online for more than one listing and different subscription periods at a time
- Integrated affiliate system

I looked at Custompress, Directory and Classifieds, but not quite sure how it all fits together, so I am looking for the right mix of plugins.

I would just wait and see whats produced with the new directories plugin (as it used to be that it had to link to the directories theme here so Im guessing they are changing it to be a stand alone product as Ive seen complaints).

So new directories plugin with pay to blog would definitely get you off and running.

However it does sound wo me that you just need a classifieds site, unfortnuately I think the classifieds plugin here may be a little basic for your needs.

(thanks to bear with me while I still new and getting my head around the mojo here...)

I looked at both Classifieds and Directory before and they seemed a little simplistic for what I am looking for. Especially the capability to create custom listing packages - something like bronze, silver, gold with different amounts of pics and text fields - appears to be missing. Any thoughts?

Does the Affiliate fully integrate with these applications?

I guess I will play around a little now with your different suggestions....

But its a really good theme, I have it running on a few sites. It still uses WP so you could still use the affiliates plugin from here. The good thing about the above theme is the different pricing structures you can have which I think will meet your needs.

Just to clarify that for a plugin to work with the Affiliates plugin it is necessary for the plugin to be specifically coded to indeed work with the Affiliate plugin in which I doubt any none WPMU Dev plugin would be coded for this.

In addition, simplicity is beautiful and fits right into the solid and proven KISS doctrine --> Keep it Simple Stupid or for some it is Keep it Stupid Simple.

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